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What is alotservice.exe?

Part ofALOT Update Service by Inuvo

What is it?

ALOT Update Service is a program installed with the ALOT Toolbar (ALOT Appbar) which runs in the background of Windows and automatically starts up when your PC boots. It checks for software udpates and automatically downloads and installs them if found. ALOT Appbar is a toolbar/add-in for Internet Explorer, Chrome and Firefox that allows you to install various 'widget' sub apps into.

Description of alotservice.exe from Inuvo

“ALOT is a place where you can discover and download apps for your PC. All of our apps are free to download and use, so why not join in the fun today? ALOT apps are displayed in our free ALOT Appbar, a neat piece of software that sits in your web browser and keeps all your favorite content constantly within reach. ALOT products are certified by TRUSTe to help give you piece of mind. Whether you're looking to stay ahead of the weather, play games, keep up with your friends on social networks, listen to music, or find great shopping deals, ALOT apps have it covered.”

How does alotservice.exe run?

Service - alotservice.exe runs as a background Windows service called 'AlotService' (ALOT Update Service). This service runs as the SYSTEM account with extensive privileges on the local computer, and acts as the computer on the network. ALOT Update Service runs as a program that can be started by the Service Controller and that obeys the service control protocol. This type of service runs in a process by itself.

Community

What is the community is seeing?

What is the community is doing?

About 0.3% of all Boost users have the alotservice.exe process running.

Of the 0.3% of alotservice.exe users, 91.0% have disabled it.

How stable is ALOT Update Service?

Based on crash data discovered by Boost, stability is a measure of how sound this particular process and the average percent of times it crashes.

alotservice.exe0.03%

Typical program1.26%

How resource intensive is alotservice.exe?

Comparison based on the average resource utilization across all programs.

0.00185% CPU18527.7%

Average CPU utilization across all programs is 0.00001%.

2.64 MB RAM12.3%

Average private memory utilization across all programs is 21.53 MB.

20 context switches/sec20.0%

Average context switches for all programs is 100 per second.

Typical file (disk image) location:

C:\users\user\appdata\locallow\alotservice\alotservice.exe

What modules are loaded?

A module is a dynamic link library (DLL) or an executable file that is loaded into the process. Below is a list of non-system modules that are loaded by ALOT Update Service.

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